Books

Pelle No-Tail and the Christmas Gifts Thieves

Gösta Knutsson

Christmas has arrived and Pelle has got five kronor to buy some Christmas gifts for. But when he is about to pay for the necklace that he is buying for Maja he realises that the money is gone. Who is trying to play a mean trick on Pelle?

Original title: Pelle Svanslös och julklappstjuvarna

Series: Pelle No-Tail

Category: Children / Fiction 6-9

Pub date: 15-10-1999

God’s Mercy

Kerstin Ekman

When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is poorly prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated…

Original title: Guds barmhärtighet

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 08-10-1999

The Fly and The Eternity

Håkan Nesser

Maertens is fifty-four years old. He has begun to lose control of his life and gets silent phone calls from an unknown person. The woman he has had a long relationship with has left him. There is a strange change in the skin on his chest. The writing…

Original title: Flugan och evigheten

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 31-08-1999

Meteors

Horace Engdahl

Original title: Meteorer

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 24-08-1999

Countryside Mushrooms

Bo Mossberg, Sven Nilsson, Olle Persson

A fantastic guide to the kingdom of mushrooms Countryside Mushrooms is a reliable and beautiful guide to mushrooms that grow in the Swedish countryside. This is Sweden’s most comprehensive mushroom guide with detailed descriptions of about 400 specie…

Original title: Svampar i naturen

Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction / Animals & Nature

Pub date: 21-06-1999

Format: Format: 130x195 mm Pages: 320, full colour throughout

Hour of the Wolf

Håkan Nesser

A drunk driver runs down a young boy. He runs away from the scene of the accident but his life is turned upside down. Increasingly desperate evasive action drives him mad. Superintendent Reinhart and the recently created secondhand bookshop owner Van…

Original title: Carambole

Series: Van Veeteren

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 19-03-1999

The Road

Harry Martinson

At the center of WAY OUT is the hobo Bolle and his travels through a Sweden that is soon about to fundamentally change through industrialization. Bolle has two ambitions: one, to escape from his Father’s tobacco business and become a musician, the ot…

Original title: Vägen till Klockrike

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 01-04-1998

Pelle No-Tail and Maja Gräddnos

Gösta Knutsson

Pelle is Uppsala’s wisest and nicest cat, despite being one without a tail. Follow Pelle on his adventure around the town and the rest of the world together with mean Måns, Bill and Bull, Gullan from Arkadien, Rickard from Rickomberga and the rest of…

Original title: Pelle Svanslös och Maja Gräddnos

Series: Pelle No-Tail

Category: Children / Fiction 6-9

Pub date: 09-02-1998